Word: dwight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Among guests were the President and Mrs. Calvin Coolidge, Secretary of State and Mrs. Frank Billings Kellogg, Secretary of War Dwight Filley Davis, Secretary of Agriculture and Mrs. William M. Jardine, Associate Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court and Mrs. George Sutherland...
...through the summer Midshipman Zirkle pondered his decision. In 1925 the rule had been made that every Annapolis man must serve two years as ensign after graduation (TIME, Feb. 9, 1925). A fortnight ago, Midshipman Zirkle reconsidered; Secretary of the Navy Curtis Dwight Wilbur approved his commission. Then a few days later, at a conference with Secretary Wilbur and Rear Admiral Louis McCoy Nulton, superintendent of the Naval Academy, he balked again, said he has a conscientious objection to continuing in the service...
...motored innocuously in the Bois de Boulogne. He even "saw sights." Only once could it be discovered that he "dined in conference." Even that was a mere luncheon at the home of M. Rousseau, attended by two U. S. financiers: Benjamin Strong, Governor of the Federal Reserve Bank and Dwight W. Morrow of J. P. Morgan & Co. Finally Mr. Mellon dropped in at the U. S. Embassy and was reminded of a duty by able Chargé d'Affaires Sheldon Whitehouse. Mr. Whitehouse informed Mr. Mellon that in deference to custom he must call on the Premier of France...
...shrieking passengers, then another, then the cabin crushed in upon them, everything upside down in pain, screams, a horrifying silence. Some of the passengers regained consciousness before they were dragged out; some awoke in Folkestone and Sandgate hospitals. Robert Blaney, just-graduated-from-Harvard son of Artist Dwight Blaney of Boston never awoke; neither did another passenger, an Italian. The French pilot died next day. The British Air Ministry started investigations into "the most serious passenger airplane tragedy England has ever experienced."* Yet there was no thought of abating air travel in Europe. Frightful though it was, the Hurst crash...
...Dwight Filly Davis Jr., who received a "Louisville Slugger" ball bat autographed by Babe Ruth, because he was judged the best soldier-athlete at the Citizens Military Training Camp at Plattsburg...